Haystack Butte, MSM 98-78: Middle Turonian, New Mexico
collected 1998
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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| "carbonized logs" | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Melvius sp.
Bryant 1987
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Therizinosauridae
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Nothronychus mckinleyi n. gen., n. sp.
Kirkland and Wolfe 2001
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Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Zuniceratops christopheri
Wolfe and Kirkland 1998
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6 individuals | |||||||||
| paratypes | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Catron |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 108.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 75.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moreno Hill | Member: | Lower | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Probably Collignoniceras woollgari Zone based on underlying Atarque Sandstone; = "lower" Middle Turonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: "upper part of a meandering river point-bar sequence" in "relatively stagnant floodplain deposition" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -seasonal |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | preferred |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Size sorting: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1998 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52033 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-12 11:39:30 | Last modified: | 2022-03-23 14:31:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-12 11:39:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13881. | ETE | D. G. Wolfe and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:307-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19431 | ETE | J. I. Kirkland, D. K. Smith, and D. G. Wolfe. 2005. Holotype braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 87-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13832 | ETE | J. I. Kirkland and D. G. Wolfe. 2001. First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):410-414 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 16778 | ETE | D. B. Wolfe, S. Beekman, D. McHuiness, T. Robira, and R. Denton. 2004. Taphonomic characterizations of a Zuniceratops bone bed from the middle Cretaceous (Turonian) Moreno Hill Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):131A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 18012 | ETE | D. G. Wolfe. 2000. New information on the skull of Zuniceratops christopheri, a neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:93-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 80958 | L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |